Accessibility News June 28,2014 Update

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In this Issue
*Farmed Salmon Conversion Success Required Before B.C. Disability Pensions Increase
*AMI-Audio Special Focuses on the Accessibility of Some of the USAs Most Famous Monuments
*Education Dept. Issues New Special Ed Rules
*Advancing Ontarios accessibility: a study of linguistic, discursive, and conceptual barriers
*Panel Will Help Make Province More Accessible, Inclusive

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Recently B.C. Premier Christy Clark unveiled her Governments strategy for improving the lives of people with disabilities, starting with their pensions. Pensions were frozen in 2007 at $906 per month, with the Government eagerly clawing back wherever it makes possible any additional money the person may receive. As inflation has not been frozen, so the B.C. Government has decreased the pension benefit each year since 2007.

The Education Department announced Tuesday that it will begin to look at graduation rates, test scores and other measures of academic performance to help determine if states are meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

This article presents findings from an institutional ethnographic study of language and discourse used within texts and everyday talk associated with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). It is argued that planners, architects, and designers working with the AODA and its accessibility standards could help to advance accessibility by being critically aware of language and discourse in AODA-related texts that discretely organize disability to be related to and conceptualized singularly as a biomedical personal problem because such a concept obfuscates the focus of the AODA and provides little support to its social goals.

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